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Balbirnie goes for Ashwin and succeeds, claiming two boundaries, before the bowler hits back decisively, drawing a top-edge from a sweep that spoons the ball up to Shami at short fine leg. Here comes the other O'Brien, Kevin. We all know what he can do.

Kalika Mehta
BBC Sport in Hamilton

"The small pockets of Ireland fans are enjoying chanting 'England's going home' to the tune of 'Football's coming home'.

"Niall O'Brien's half-century is giving the Irish fans plenty to cheer about and many of the supporters have said they are eyeing a quarter-final berth to 'give them an extra reason to celebrate St Patrick's Day', apparently. St Paddy's, on March 17th, is a rather big deal in these parts."

Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Niall O'Brien realises he's got away with one there with that six. There was a huge smile on his face. The difference there was the intent. He was looking to go for it and gave himself room and even though he didn't get hold of it, he got enough on it."

O'Brien swipes another six, which he plants towards cow corner. He gets lucky as the ball goes through the hands of a fielder in the deep. Balbirnie also gets his slice of luck as he tries to sweep aggressively and gets a top-edge over the keeper for four. Jadeja goes for 13.

India use their review unsuccessfully to try and overturn a not out decision against Balbirnie, who tried to sweep the returning Ashwin and flicked the ball up to a fielder, but off his arm, not his bat. O'Brien makes the most of the final ball of the over by dancing down and hitting down the ground for six.

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Jadeja is back in the attack as the powerplay begins and he does well to keep Ireland to just two runs. Ireland need to show greater intent, especially with only three men in the deep with the restrictions.

India have been decent in the field today and they cause Ireland a few nervous moments with a direct throw on the stumps at the non-striker's end by Mohit to try and run out O'Brien. he was well home, though, as the replay confirms. Raina's final over goes for three runs and he finishes with 10-0-40-1.

Ireland are building some momentum now. Balbirnie contributes to this with a drive through cover for four off Mohit. O'Brien then takes over with a pull from a short ball that hits the gap and rockets to the fence. The bowler then chucks in a wide down leg for good measure. This is a pleasing change of gear for Ireland ahead of the powerplay.

The 150 is up for Ireland courtesy of a superbly-timed sweep from O'Brien who does little more than steer the ball from Raina but does enough to beat the fielder. After a couple of singles (one of which gets Balbirnie off the mark), O'Brien repeats his sweep trick to loft one down to the same boundary for another four.

Balbirnie is the new man. He fell just three runs short of a century in that superb game against Zimbabwe. What can he do here? He is given a couple of testing deliveries at the end of Mohit's over but survives them.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"The spinners have done an excellent job in restricting Ireland and the batsmen thought there was a chance to get the momentum going again with the return of a seam bowler. Disappointment for Porterfield because he was going so well and now someone will have to stick in and make a good 50/70 to take this game to India."

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Porterfield had done all the hard work by surviving the spinners but he falls as soon as Mohit Sharma returns with a leading edge off an attempted steer to leg that flicks the ball up for the simplest of catches for Yadav. It is a good innings from the Ireland captain. Now can the bigger hitters kick their team on?

Raina causes Porterfield some problems as one kicks on and almost beats the batsman's defence before sneaking one under the bat next ball as the skipper advanced down the track. After a single, O'Brien survives an lbw call after he stepped across to try and steer the ball to leg. Ireland will still be happy with this. It is tough going but they have batsmen in the tent for a charge.

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Ireland 142-2 from 30 overs (Ireland won toss)

Batsmen: Porterfield 66 from 88 (five fours, one six), O'Brien 27 from 42

Fall of wickets: 89-1 (Stirling 42), 92-2 (Joyce 2)

Bowling figures: Yadav 2-0-15-0, Shami 4-0-23-0, Mohit Sharma 3-0-18-0 Jadeja 3-0-20-0, Ashwin 8-0-19-1, Raina 7-0-25-1, Rohit Sharma 3-0-21-0

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This is much better from O'Brien, who uses his first to superb effect to claim successive boundaries at the start of Rohit's latest over. He hits the first aerially towards cow corner and the second over extra cover. Four singles follow to complete an excellent over for Ireland - the first you could say they have won in a while.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"India are fired up here in the field and the bowlers are really keen to get through these overs quickly to make sure Ireland don't have any time to think about their batting."

Ireland are back in the boundary game as Porterfield plants his front foot and hammers one from Raina over extra cover for four. The bowler responds well with some cunning deliveries, one of which that kicks on and ties up the Irish skipper.

Porterfield's strike-rate was around 100 earlier in the innings. He has slowed down markedly since the Indian spinners entered the fray. He now has 60 from 80 balls. It is a binary innings now. All 0s and 1s.

Ireland are going to have to do something soon to increase their scoring rate here. It is not a big ground and India will not be daunted by a total below 300. Raina keeps up the pressure with another neat over that restricts Ireland to four singles.

Another bowling change but India are sticking with the spin, courtesy of Rohit Sharma. He starts loosely with a full toss that Porterfield sweeps away for two but tightens up and keeps the Irish pair to singles.